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Have you ever needed to connect to a PC using Remote Desktop to either check something out or to install a better remote connectivity software like VNC? A couple years ago, IntelliAdmin created an application to install remote desktop from a remote PC. I’ve used it several times and it has come in quite handy. Download it at ...

Yesterday I have noticed that the Windows Media Center web site has added an Silverlight application that is showing how the Windows Media Center on Windows Vista is working. Hey, I did this with one of the first beta versions of Silverlight, but not as impressive as the demo. Well, since Silverlight has streaming support in HD quality I had ...

I feel a little silly this morning. When I setup my new Vista box a few weeks ago I installed my CA Security Center that I love and uninstalled Windows Defender - or at least I thought I had. I swear I saw it in Add & Remove Programs and got rid of it. Well, this morning it popped up saying that an update failed. ?? So I looked again and ...

Sounds like Windows 7 might be previewed at the PDC. If not, significant details will surely be shared. No, I didn't escape one of the Microsoft buildings with their business plan but rather came across the team's new blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/. The first posts were yesterday (August 14th) and I'm sure more posts will be coming soon. Be ...

Unless you are using IE 32-bit, don't expect the Clearspring widgets to work. Clearspring is one of the leaders in building widgets for social networks and Vista. The reason their widgets do not work is because Flash is not yet supported on 64-bit platforms. By default, the Vista Sidebar on a 64-bit system displays widgets by using IE 64-bit. An ...

Recently (and quite randomly I might add), I had an error dialog popup continuously, every 5-10 minutes which read: ''MSFeeds Synchronization has stopped working (2054)'' It was driving me crazy and was unsure how to resolve. There is actually not that much on the net about but this post got me going in the right direction. Basically, I first ...

I was complaining (more or less) several weeks ago about the amount of work it was going to take to upgrade my MCSE to the latest version. The good news is I went and did the Windows end of things and now I'm apparently an ''MCITP: Enterprise Administrator''. Now compared to MCSE, no HR person is going to know what that means. Most folks are ...

Many have found it difficult to establish a VPN connection on Windows Mobile 5. There are quite a few blog posts out there with instructions, but none are really that complete. Before you can establish a connection from your mobile device, you need to establish a VPN server. For my purposes, I've setup Routing and Remoting Access on a Windows ...

I hope this helps someone because it totally freaked me out this evening. I rebooted this evening, the first reboot since March, in fact, and blue-screened (BSOD) upon startup. At this point I was in a blue screen ''loop'' with the ominous message ''INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR'' on the blue screen. I started cussing Vista out and panicking, but this ...

I have had ongoing problems getting various tests to work using my installation of VS2008 Team Suite. Initially, I had a problem running unit tests (see here), then sometime after that, I had other niggling issues with code coverage and had to copy assemblies from Private folders to public folders and vice versa. Recently, I tried recording some ...